Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-15
WOMAN AND HOME.
HOW A 16-YEAR.OLD GRIPS EYES
WERE OPENED.
The Right TO Remain Singie-Habit
OF Compiaining-Mrs. LanStrys
Hints and Helps.


the genuine flowers that they themselves
might have been deceived By nay portrayals
and have taken them for their own pretty
reflections in stream or mirror. And in
music I had So mastered the intricacies
even of Beethoven that played one of his
sonatas all through at public recital. But
I never had swept room IN my life, and II
any one had asked me why eggs were used
in cooking I might perhaps have been
obtuse enough to answer, For sweetening
purposes. And I gloried in my ignor-
ance considering it " bliss until one day
in summer when my eyes we're opened
wider THAI they ever We're before.
Ny parents had gone away for day or
two, taking the chambermaid with them,
and Immediately after their departure the
cook went to bed sick. l was not much
disturbed however. as there was plenty of
cooked food in the house. But about noon,
when I was practising the scales and my
fingers were scampering like white mice
from one end of the piano 10 the other a
merry laugh interrupted my exertions. and
turning my head, all bristling with hair
pins FOX evening beautifers. l saw my
cousin Charley and two other youths from
college I always called Charley my cousin.
although the relationship was a little indis-
tinet, his elder half sister having married
my uncle.
as hungry as three bears
"Oh, dear ~ I gasped, there's 10 one
here but me, and ! don't know how to
get dinner. But there's cold meat end
bread
Cant we have a steak, Jenny" he in
quired. land baked potatoes and coffee
Well help you
We'll, I rejoined, come into the
kitchen but you will have to make a fire
first
1--WE can do it, was the merry reply
Toms the philosopher
Z" And you re the -
No impertinence, Charley retorted
" but We'll soon have fire"
We did, and getting the potatoes ! was
putting them right into the open when my
cousin asked in a strange whisper, Jenny,
Jenny, amt you going to wash them first p
Ny cheeks burned and taking them TO
the sink | gave them such a scrubbing as
potatoes never received before.
" Charley I whispered, shall I wash
the steak p
II you choose, dear, he answered but
l wouldn't use soap. Now, where's the
ground Coffee
did not know any more about it than if
| lived il Jupiter or Venus, but the boy 5
nose led him right 70 the spot, and soon
the coffee was boiling and the steak broil-
ing in an appetizing way I placed the
meat upon dish, and was intending TO
leave it thus in beauty unadorned' when
one of my visitors suggested timidly "Ex-
cuse me, but don't you put a little some
thing on It? Lard or butter Or something
Not lard, Charley interposed Great
Scott butter, salt and pepper. Jenny. are
the usual ingredients,
Blushing more fuliousiy than ever, I Gp-
piled the desired articles. and the dinner
was really very good. We had a merry
time, but when NV cousin said good-by ne
added: You're dear jolly girl. Jenny,
but if l were YOU d learn how to COOK. Il
would look better, don't you know
Yes, | DID know, and | was not silly
enough to take offense. | took the hint in
stead and SO effectuaily that in three
months afterwards, when my adviser came
10 visit us, sent the cook out of the kitch-
Ell and got the dinner myself, unassist-
ed, and Charley whispered-but no matter
what he whispered. That was several
years ago, and now he sits opposite to me
at the table three times a day-Good
Housekeeping.
THE lounge IN THE KITCHEN.
One Of those mysterious "housekeepers'
who are constantly enlightening the world
about the best way to dust q room Or TO
spank baby gives this sapient advice
Another restfUl and really economical
thing is TO have a lounge in the kitchen
where you can lie down easily With
twenty minutes change of position, re-
tTeshing article TO -ed,! or nap, you will
be ,'i-"f, -. how -eu can turn oil the work
attei Fasl- la; % hi -, tle COOK or
The maid o;-ai. work wont see this, for a
lounge in the kitchen would be such u nice
plan for aCceleratiEg the work OF u house,
besides, having conceded that, the next re-
qu;rement must be a piano. II a woman
" does her own work she can lie down
when or where she pleases while waiting
for the dinner to cook, but the chances
would be the dinner would be ruined.
There is no economy in that, surely. Peo-
pie who can't sit up during business
hours are to be pitied, but don't let them
advocate lounge as a remedy. because
it is a clumsy piece of furniture that would
be awfully in the way of the pots and pans.
Boston Herald.
ADVICE TO YOUNG HoUsEKEEPERs.
One of the best rules ever given by a
mother to daughter Just about to begin
housekeeping was: Always see every part
of your house from garnet to cellar at least
once day the servants get to know this,
and, consequently, they never throw things
into the corners or leave untidy closets.
This is especially good advice concerning
the kitchen. Make q point of opening
pantry drawers lifteng the washtub lids
take a look into the refrigerator every
morning, and see what difference it will
make in the cooks neatness. A good mis-
tress can always manage to do this while
she is giving the days orders, and in such
way as not to offend the girls feelings
for some-and the best girls-are very
sensitive about being watched, or rather at
having their ability to keep tidy kitchen
doubted. AT the same time, the knowledge
that her mistress is more than likely to
look into the refrigerator at any time, will
greatly influence the putting away of pro-
visions and keeping the waste pan empty,
Atlanta Constitution.
MRS. LANGTRYs COMPLEXION.
To her vapor baths Mrs Langtry attri-
butes her complexion, and three times a
week she undergoes either the Turkish or
Russian mode. she habitually uses white
CASTLE soap, with warm water, for her face
every night upon her return from the
theater and before retiring for the night.
In the use of tooth powder she is very con-
sentative. She does not believe in the use
of powder or cosmetics in the hours of day
light. The beautys favorite perfume is
wood violet, and it comes from the quaint
cathedral town of Canterbury. Long ago,
one morning she had been to the cathedral,
and as she walked up lane near by, some
delightful perfume filled the air. There
was a little chemists establishment, and
the proprietor was asked whence the odor
came, He said it was from the distilling
of violets which he had gathered in the
woods. They all purchased some of his
scent, and it became famous. The obscure
chemist is now rich perfumer.
Mrs. Langtrys ears are not pierced, and
ear rings are never seen in the pink lobes.
She never wears her wedding ring, but on
the third finger of her left hand a slender
band of yellow gold holds an immense tur-
uuois Mrs LANDRY LeeOs two distinct